netdev - Re: pegged softirq and NAPI race (?)

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Date:   Tue, 18 Sep 2018 16:49:24 +0000
From:   Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>
To:     Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
CC:     netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
        Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>,
        "michael.chan@...adcom.com" <michael.chan@...adcom.com>,
        Kernel Team <Kernel-team@...com>
Subject: Re: pegged softirq and NAPI race (?)



> On Sep 18, 2018, at 9:33 AM, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 9:19 AM Song Liu <songliubraving@...com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Sep 18, 2018, at 6:45 AM, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 1:41 AM Song Liu <songliubraving@...com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> We are debugging this issue that netconsole message triggers pegged softirq
>>>> (ksoftirqd taking 100% CPU for many seconds). We found this issue in
>>>> production with both bnxt and ixgbe, on a 4.11 based kernel. This is easily
>>>> reproducible with ixgbe on 4.11, and latest net/net-next (see [1] for more
>>>> detail).
>>>> 
>>>> After debugging for some time, we found that this issue is likely related
>>>> to 39e6c8208d7b ("net: solve a NAPI race"). After reverting this commit,
>>>> the steps described in [1] cannot reproduce the issue on ixgbe. Reverting
>>>> this commit also reduces the chances we hit the issue with bnxt (it still
>>>> happens with a lower rate).
>>>> 
>>>> I tried to fix this issue with relaxed variant (or older version) of
>>>> napi_schedule_prep() in netpoll, just like the one on napi_watchdog().
>>>> However, my tests do not always go as expected.
>>>> 
>>>> Please share your comments/suggestions on which direction shall we try
>>>> to fix this.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>> Song
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> [1] https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.spinics.net_lists_netdev_msg522328.html&d=DwIBaQ&c=5VD0RTtNlTh3ycd41b3MUw&r=i6WobKxbeG3slzHSIOxTVtYIJw7qjCE6S0spDTKL-J4&m=iSaOapj1kxjhGYLgQr0Qd8mQCzVdobmgT1L4JwFvzxs&s=lCEhrz6wQJUUaJOkxFmtOszAgkf3Jh4reX_i1GbI5RI&e=
>>> 
>>> You have not traced ixgbe to understand why driver hits
>>> "clean_complete=false" all the time ?
>> 
>> The trace showed that we got "clean_complete=false" because
>> ixgbe_clean_rx_irq() used all budget (64). It feels like the driver
>> is tricked to process old data on the rx_ring for one more time.
> 
> Process old data ???? That would be quite an horrible bug !
> 
> Probably ASAN would help here, detecting use-after-free or things like that.

I have tried KASAN, unfortunately, it doesn't yield any useful data. I think 
it is not a use-after-free of some skb. It is more like bugs in the handling 
of the rx/tx ring. 

Thanks,
Song